Identity crisis: Global challenges of identity protection in a networked world

Modern identity is valuable, multi-functional and complex. Today we typically manage multiple versions of self, made visible in digital trails distributed widely across offline and online spaces. Yet, technology-mediated identity leads us into crisis. Enduring accessibility to greater and growing personal details online, alongside increases in both computing power and data linkage techniques, fuel fears of identity exploitation. Will it be stolen? Who controls it? Are others aggregating or analysing our identities to infer new data about us without our knowledge or consent? New challenges present themselves globally around these fears, as manifested by concerns over massive online data breaches and automated identification technologies, which also highlight the conundrum faced by governments about how to safeguard individuals' interests on the Web while striking a fair balance with wider public interests. This paper reflects upon some of these problems as part of the inter-disciplinary, transatlantic ‘SuperIdentity’ project investigating links between cyber and real-world identifiers. To meet the crisis, we explore the relationship between identity and digitisation from the perspective of policy and law. We conclude that traditional models of identity protection need supplementing with new ways of thinking, including pioneering ‘technical-legal’ initiatives that are sensitive to the different risks that threaten our digital identity integrity. Only by re-conceiving identity dynamically to appreciate the increasing capabilities for connectivity between different aspects of our identity across the cyber and the physical domains, will policy and law be able to keep up with and address the challenges that lie ahead in our progressively networked world.     

The regulation of civilian drones' impacts on behavioural privacy

Surveillance technologies have burgeoned during the last several decades. To surveillance's promises and threats, drones add a new dimension, both figuratively and literally. An assessment of the impacts of drones on behavioural privacy identifies a set of specific threats that are created or exacerbated. Natural controls, organisational and industry self-regulation, co-regulation and formal laws are reviewed, both general and specific to various forms of surveillance. Serious shortfalls in the regulatory framework are identified. Remedies are suggested, together with means whereby they may come into being.     

加强铁路公安视频监控系统建设与应用的思考——以徐州铁路公安处为视角

视频监控具有形象、直观、高效、可靠的性能特点,在提升警务效能、维护安全稳定、服务旅客群众等方面,越来越发挥出不可替代的功效和作用。不断加强视频建设、抓好监管、规范运用、服务实战,对于推进防控体系制度化建设具有重大意义。     

POSTAL 2 plays in US court - Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association

In an unprecedented legal development, the case of violence in video games has now reached the highest American court. The US Supreme Court is set to decide whether states can restrict minors from buying violent video games in the case of Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association. The decision could have serious implications on the future of First Amendment rights and children’s ’welfare. To resolve Schwarzenegger, the Justices will need to decide how much First Amendment protection should be extended to violent video games and whether minors have a greater constitutional right to violence than they do to obscenity.     

论检察机关的技术侦查权

在此轮刑事诉讼法再修改过程中,秘密侦查、技术侦查立法是侦查部分修正的重要内容之一,其中争议最大的问题莫过于检察机关自侦案件中应否享有完整的技侦权。首先需要分析现有规范性依据及实践中自侦案件技侦手段的使用情况。占主流观点的支持者提出了种种理由,然而从技侦权配置的整体改革方向来看,基于技侦手段干预权利的程度及技侦手段规制的必然要求,技侦的决定权与执行权应当分离,检察机关在技侦权配置体系中应当承担其监督职能,而不是执行职能。     

视听资料的合法性审查与运用

视听资料是随着现代科学技术的发展而出现的一种新的诉讼证据。在整个证据体系中 ,视听资料具有十分重要的作用 ,并且随着科学技术的进一步发展 ,视听资料的运用将更加普遍。但是 ,在司法实践中 ,视听资料的收集往往受到很多限制。尤其是行政机关和司法机关的工作人员 ,常常曲解法律条文 ,限制当事人对视听资料的运用。为此本文着重阐明合法的视听资料的构成要件 ,以及收集视听资料的合法渠道和方式 ,以期扩大视听资料的适用范围 ,促进国家行政机关和司法机关依法行使职权     

Double balloon enteroscopy in children:Diagnosis,treatment,and safety

AIM:To assess the feasibility and utility of double balloon enteroscopy(DBE)in the management of small bowel diseases in children. METHODS:Fourteen patients(10 males)with a median age of 12.9 years(range 8.1-16.7)underwent DBE; 5 for Peutz-Jeghers syndrome(PJ syndrome),2 for chronic abdominal pain,4 for obscure gastrointestinal (GI)bleeding,2 with angiomatous malformations(1 blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome)having persistent GI bleeding,and 1 with Cowden‘s syndrome with multiple polyps and previous intussusc...